Robert Lawrence Stine, better known as R. L. Stine, was born January 8th, 1943 in Columbus, Ohio. As a child, Stine enjoyed humorous books, TV shows, movies, magazines, and so on (Cashburn). Stine, himself, accredits Mad magazine for changing his life. It was not until Stine read Something Wicked Comes, a horror book by author Ray Bradbury, that Stine became interested in stories of horror and terror. One day, when Stine was nine, he ventured into …
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